Ellen Dissanayake
October 29 6:30pm
MFA Studios at the Bison Building, 421 NE 10th Avenue

Ellen Dissanayake is an independent scholar, author, and lecturer whose writings about the arts synthesize many disciplines and draw upon 15 years of living and working in non-Western countries. Her Darwinian viewpoint provides a broader understanding of the arts than is customary in most theoretical approaches. She is the author of three books: What Is Art For?, Homo Aestheticus, and Art and Intimacy, as well as over 70 scholarly and popular articles.

There is a more detailed bio of the speaker on the OCAC website at:
http://ocac.edu/#/events/calendar/2009-oct29-mfa-in-applied-craft-and-design-lecture—ellen-dissayanake-/